online intelligent quiz system - BRAC University Institutional

ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM
Md. Zaman Sarker
Student ID: 02101126
Minhajur Rahman
Student ID: 02201102
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Summer 2007
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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DECLARATION
We hereby declare that this thesis is based on the results found by
ourselves. Materials of work found by other researchers are mentioned by
reference. This thesis, neither in whole nor in part, has been previously
submitted for any degree.
Signature of
Supervisor
Signature of
Author
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For our thesis work, we want to thank to Dr. Abdul Latif from our hearts. As a
thesis supervisor, he has given all the supports that we needed. He was
always there for us to give any kind of suggestion and help, as far our thesis
is concern. It’s an honor for us to work with such a wonderful teacher like him.
In this long two-semester thesis work, we have also gotten lots of help from
Dr. Tarik Ahmed Chowdhury and Mr. Rezaul Karim. I am also very grateful to
the two big-hearted persons.
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ABSTRACT
This thesis report describes an online intelligent multiple-choicequestion examination system, named Online Intelligent Quiz System
(OIQS), for students. Any university, college or school with a
computerized education system can adopt this system. Teachers can
administer quizzes using the OIQS. There is an expert part in our
system, which uses AI to generate questions. The system will determine
the participant’s performance depending on his answer and the next
question will be generated according to the participant’s performance.
The system will show result after the examination is finished and also be
able to provide feedback according to the participant’s demand.
Administrative control of the whole system is provided. A teacher has
control in the question bank and is suppose to make schedule for quiz.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
TITLE……………...........................................................................................…i
DECLARATION….........................................................................................…ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................iii
ABSTRACT………...........................................................................................iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS...........................................................................…....v
LIST OF FIGURES.........................................................................................vii
1.0
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………….…1
2.0 CURRENT SCENARIO OF QUIZ SYSTEM………………………….……2
2.1 Manual Quiz System…………………………..................................2
2.2 Web Based Quiz System………………………...............................2
3.0 FEED BACK FROOM CURRENT SCENARIO…………………..…….…3
4.0 PROPOSED SYSTEM.………..………………….…………………………4
4.1 Survey…………………………..………………………......................4
4.1.1 Teacher’s Survey…............................................................5
4.1.2 Student’s Survey….............................................................7
4.2 Survey Analysis…………………………………….……...................9
5.0 SYSTEM DESIGN…….……………………………….…….……………..10
5.1.0 Introduction................................................................................10
5.1.1 Purpose of this Document………….….............................10
5.1.2 Intended Audience…………………………........................10
5.1.3 Applicable Name…………………………...........................10
5.1.3 Summary of contents……………………...........................11
5.2.0 System Overview......................................................................12
5.3.0 Assumption and Decencies.......................................................13
5.4.0 General Constraints……………………………...........................13
5.4.1 Hardware and Software Environment…….......................13
5.4.2 Security Requirements…………………............................14
5.4.3 Performance Requirements……………............................14
5.4.4 Network Communications………………...........................14
5.5.0 Goals and guidelines……..........................................................14
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5.6.0 Architectural Strategies................................................................15
5.6.1.0 Software……………………………….……........................15
5.4.1.1 Programming language………................................15
5.6.1.2 Libraries and Tools……………………….................16
5.7.0 System Architecture……..............................................................17
5.8.0 Detail System Design…...............................................................18
5.8.1 Use Case Diagram…..........................................................18
5.8.2 Interaction Diagram ……………………...............................26
5.8.3 Class Diagram …………….……………...............................28
5.8.4 Flow Chart of Question Generator Algorithm......................29
5.8.5 Tree Structure View of OIQS…………………..…………….30
5.8.6 E-R Diagram…………….....................................................32
5.8.7 User Interface………………................................................35
6.0 ADVANTAGE OF OIQS ……………………………………………………..39
7.0 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………...40
8.0 DOCUMENTATION.……………………………………………………….....41
8.1 Installation…………………..............................................................41
8.2 User Manual………………...............................................................47
9.0 GLOSSARY…………………………………………………………………...70
10.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................................................................71
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
Page
5.2 Block Diagram of OIQS ........................................................................12
5.7 System Architecture..............................................................................17
5.8.1 Use Case Diagram ............................................................................18
5.8.2 Interaction Diagram ...........................................................................26
5.8.3 Class Diagram ...................................................................................28
5.8.4 Flowchart of Question Generator Algorithm.......................................29
5.8.5 Tree Structure View of OIQS .............................................................30
5.8.6 E-R Diagram......................................................................................32
5.8.7 User Interface ....................................................................................35
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
This is a web-based intelligent multiple-choice-question examination
system, named Online Intelligent Quiz System (OIQS), for assessing
students. It is a system by which students can appear in a quiz from
anywhere of the world where there is no interaction between pencil and
paper rather interaction between computer and human being. We use
the term intelligent here as the system generates questions intelligently.
There are many definitions of intelligence but we use the term
intelligence in the sense that the system generates the a new question
of a quiz by depending on the result of the question last answered and
for the same quiz of a subject it generates different questions for
different students. The questions vary student to student for the same
quiz while they are sitting in the quiz at the same time. Teachers can use
the OIQS for evaluating students effectively, efficiently and perfectly.
Any university, college, school or educational institute can use this
system for their organization to take quizzes. Today it is the more
efficient and effective methods of assessing distant students. One of the
main benefits of our system is automated marking, that is, teachers do
not need to check the answer script as they do in manual quiz. It saves
valuable time of a teacher. On the other hand, students can score
according to his/her merit level and it will give feedback about a student
in which side he/she is weak.
In recent years, the use of online quiz systems has become quite
popular due to pressures of increasing class sizes and the need for
more efficient and effective methods of assessing distant students. It is
due to the popularity of distant education.
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2.0 CURRENT SCENARIO OF QUIZ SYSTEM
Still now maximum educational institutes have been using manual system to
take quiz. In the recent year a few instructors of some institutes have been
using web-based M.C.Q. quiz system. Actually, it depends on how much web
technology a country takes or uses. For example, in Bangladesh it is rare to
use a web based quiz system. But in case of U.S.A. it is a general case to use
a web based quiz system.
2.1 MANUAL QUIZ SYSTEM
In the early days it was the most popular methods of assessing student. Still
now the system is quite popular to the students as well as to the teacher. In
this system there are several problems that we faces in a common way. Some
of those problems are:
Manual system requires pen/ pencils and paper.
Teacher needs to spend time to script checking.
Student needs to wait to get their result up to the teacher finishes the script
checking.
These are the most common problems of manual quiz system that rotated
each and every time of quiz held. For these causes the popularity of manual
system decreases day by day and online intelligent quiz system is taking
the place of the manual system.
2.2 WEB BASED QUIZ SYSTEM
Now a day the web base quiz system is getting popular with a tremendous
speed. As the technology is spreading through out the world the automated
system will also taking the places of the manual systems. Currently big
institutes are running their online quiz systems at a very successful rate. As
the time is progressing the online quiz is making interest to the faculties and
also to the students. In the big cities and organizations people are getting
understand that how the online quiz system is better and efficient. With in the
recent time this system will be taken place to this techno world. But this
system also has some lacking. If this system has the intelligent part then it will
be a perfect one. The problems that may occurs with web based quiz system:
Can’t evaluate the student perfectly.
Can’t generate the proper feed back of the students.
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3.0 FEED BACK FROM CURRENT SCENARIO
From the previous two systems I realize to solve the problems of those
systems to get a standard quiz system. In the previous two systems the things
that are short from a standard quiz system, to fix it up I design an intelligent
system, which will work according to the web base system. From this
intelligent system we can omit the manual system’s problem criteria because
it work as a web base system, which is totally automated. It also omit the
general web based system because it gives the evaluate option for the
students performance and feed back criteria. To get a standard quiz system I
tried to join the intelligent system that I designed for my thesis project. This
will help to remove the current system’s problems.
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4.0 PROPOSED SYSTEM
In recent years, the use of electronic online quiz systems has become
quite popular due to pressures of increasing class sizes, and the need
for more efficient methods of assessing distances students. This thing
motivates us to work with web based quiz system. We also have tried to
eliminate the problem with general web based quiz system and decide to
create a web based intelligent quiz system. In our thesis project, we
have tried to develop an “Online Intelligent Quiz System” which will be
popular in both the students and teachers.
To develop the system we collected some documents from web. Then
we have analyzed those documents and tried to find some logic from
there. As a step of development we collected requirements where we
have conducted a survey. In that survey we took teachers and students
opinions to make the system more meaningful. For that we made a
question set and gave it to some teachers and students. They gave their
opinions on those scripts. In below survey details are given.
4.1 SURVEY
To make an effective and efficient Online Intelligent quiz system we
need some findings. We believe that our findings will help us to make
the system user friendly. Here is a short description of our system.
Our system name is Online Intelligent Quiz System. Any University,
College or School can adopt our system where education system is
computerized. Teachers can take quizzes using our Online Intelligent
Quiz System. We will use an expert part in our system, which is
knowledge base. This expert part will work using AI. Our system will
determine the participant’s performance and the next questions will be
generated according to the participant’s performance. Our system will
also be able to provide feedback according to the participant’s demand.
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4.1.1 TEACHER’S SURVEY
We create this question for teachers to find out what type of system might be
helpful for them.
For Teachers:
Dept.:
Name:
Questions:
1. Would teachers edit questions from Question Bank and add new
questions in the Question Bank?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
2. Would teachers define numbers of Questions in a Quiz?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
3. Would teachers define the time slot of a Quiz?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
4. Would teachers reduce or increase the number of question level in
the question bank.
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
5. What do teachers want after the quiz has been finished?
Score will save automatically.
Teachers save the score
Teachers can edit and save the score
Comment:
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6. What do teachers want? In a courseSystem can keep all the quiz information (i.e. student’s mark,
performance of the students in that specific quiz).
System can keep only the last quiz information (i.e. student’s mark,
performance of the students in that specific quiz).
System can’t keep any information of a quiz. It just shows the result
after the quiz end.
Comment:
7. What do teachers want? In a courseSystem will be able to show the last five taken quiz.
System will be able to show the last taken quiz.
System will not show any quiz.
Comment:
8. Would teacher make the schedule for students?
Yes
b) No
Comment:
9. Would teacher want to see the overall student’s performance of the
quiz at the end of the Quiz?
Yes
b) No
Comment:
10. Will answer be auto submitted after time end?
a) Yes
Comment:
Remark:
b) No
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4.1.2 STUDENT’S SURVEY
We create this question for students to find out what type of system might be
helpful for them.
For Students:
Dept.:
ID:
Questions:
1. What do students want? In a courseSystem will be able to show the last five quiz question.
System will be able to show the last taken quiz question.
System will not show any quiz question.
Comment:
2. What type of system do you (students) want?
a) User friendly
d) All the above.
b) Stable
c) effective and efficient
Comment:
3. Would each question have a predefine time slot or the total Quiz
have a predefine time slot?
Each question have a predefine time slot
The total Quiz have a predefine time slot
Comment:
4. Would answer be auto submitted by the system after answering the
question or students want to submit after answered?
a) Auto-submitted
Comment:
b) Submitted by student
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5. Would answer be auto submitted after time end?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
6. Could students see the answers at the end of the quiz?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
7. Would student modify the submitted answers if his/her time is not
end?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
8. Would students get any help from the system during the exam?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
9. Could student pass the questions and try for that later?
a) Yes
b) No
Comment:
10. Is their any choice in the Quiz?
a) Yes
Comment:
Remark:
b) No
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4.1.3 SURVEY ANALYSIS
What we actually found everyone wants a user-friendly environment
while attending the quiz. We also found that maximum teachers want
thatThey should edit questions from Question Bank and add new questions
in the Question Bank and system would be able to evaluate student’s
performance perfectly.
They will define numbers of questions and time of a quiz before quiz
start. They want to make the schedule for students who attend in the
quiz. Some teachers want to fix the time for a quiz. For example, student
could attend quiz 1 from 1st June 10:00am to 2nd June 5:00pm.
They want system would be able to save the score automatically and
can keep all quizzes information (i.e. student’s mark, performance etc.)
of all students.
Someone wants system would be able to give feedback to the students
based on his/her weak performance in a particular area.
They want answer will be auto submitted after time end and they want to
see the overall student’s performance of the quiz at the end of the quiz.
We found from student’s survey that is
Students want the whole quiz should have a fixed amount of time rather
than for individual question.
They want a system, which should have the feasibility of skipping any
confusing questions for later answering. They want to submit after
answering each question and answers should be auto submitted if the
time of the quiz is end.
At the end of the quiz they want to see their performance and the correct
answers.
They also want that system would be able to give proper feedback to the
students and show the last five taken quizzes. They give emphasis on
the user-friendly feature of the system.
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5.0 SYSTEM DESIGN
5.1.0 INTRODUCTION
This Software Design Specification Template is for the ONLINE
INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM. This Software has implemented as a thesis
project of BRAC University Computer Science and Engineering
Department that is one of the well-known private universities in
Bangladesh. This Design Specification Template describes the System
Architecture and Detailed System Design of the ONLINE INTELLIGENT
QUIZ SYSTEM.
5.1.1 PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT
The purpose of this document is that it helps the programmer (i.e. us) to
implement the system correctly and easily. It is not possible for the
programmer to implement the system without a design document. In this
document the designers are supposed to provide a clear design of the
system. The design then serves as a guide to the developers who write
the code and actually implement the software. Another purpose of this
document is that it also helps the designer to update the system or
modify several part of the system in future. That is why the SDS
document also looks into several design considerations, including
design tradeoffs and code reusability.
5.1.2 INTENDED AUDIENCE
Intended audience of this document is those people who are reuse this
document and also who are updates or modify this system in future.
Generally they are system designer and some of them may be system
developer.
5.1.3 APPLICABLE NAME
An applicable name that the system uses is ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ
SYSTEM (OIQS). This is the first version of this system because we are
the people first time create this software.
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5.1.4 SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
In Section 5.2 of the SYSTEM DESIGN document we give an overview
about the ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM. In Section 5.3 we
describe the assumptions and dependencies of the System. In Section
5.4 we describe the general constraints and limitations that have a
significant impact on the design of the ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ
SYSTEM software. In Section 5.5 we describe the goals, guidelines,
principles, or priorities, which dominate or embody the design of
ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM software. In Section 5.6 we
describe Architectural Strategies of our ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ
SYSTEM software. In Section 5.7 we describe the System Architecture of
our ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM software. Here we have shown
a high level diagram of our system identifying all the subsystems and
the interactions/dependencies between the subsystems. In Section 5.8
we have shown the Detailed Design of the ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ
SYSTEM software. In this Section we include a use case diagram, class
diagram of subsystem, Interaction diagrams, and an E-R diagram.
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5.2.0 SYSTEM OVERVIEW
ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM is a Web based M.C.Q. Quiz
System for evaluating students. This system is developed considering
educational institutes like university, College and school. Student can
attend in a quiz from anywhere of the world by using this system.
This is the block diagram of Online Intelligent Quiz System
Question
Bank
Generator
engine
Quiz
Student
Admin
Teachers
Figure 5.2: Block Diagram of OIQS
Admin is responsible for registration of the both teachers and students.
Teachers define the number of questions, time of the quiz, schedule for
the quiz etc. According to these information question will be generated
for students. Teachers are responsible for add and edit questions from
the question bank. They add question in the question bank in different
level according to their level of difficulty. Generator engine generate
questions for a quiz from the question bank. To generate the next
question, Question Generator check the previous question answer
submitted by the student and depending on that result Question
Generator decide the level of difficulty for the next question and
generate it. It also gives feedback to the students. Student can appear in
the quiz when his/her time slot is started. But before attend in a quiz
he/she might be registered for that course by the admin of the institute.
At the end of a quiz they can see the correct answers and their
performance. Teachers can evaluate a student at the end of the quiz.
For the same quiz of a subject Question Generator may generates
different question for different student. That is question may very
student to student for the same quiz while they are appear in the quiz at
the same time.
To design the software we use 3-tier architecture. As 3-tier architecture
divide the whole system into three parts, so to design the system we
divide our system into three subsystems. These are Client Tier/ Client
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subsystem, Business Logic Tier/ Business Logic subsystem, and
Database Tier/ Database subsystem.
5.3.0 ASSUMPTIONS AND DEPENDENCIES
We assume that students are interested on intelligent quiz where
different students might appear in answering different questions for the
same quiz depending on his/her performance. Teachers also interested
to take intelligent quiz where he/she can evaluate a student perfectly.
The users of the OIQS system are the school/college/university
students, teachers and the admin who control the system and those
institutes must be computerized.
Any institute might have to Internet connection to use OIQS system
because this is a web based application.
5.4.0 GENERAL CONSTRAINTS
OIQS is a generic application as it may be use by many users of many
institutes. So the constraints that we have to consider might be in
generic sense.
5.4.1 Hardware and software environment
To develop this OIQS we use HTML for client-tier, PHP and JSP for
Business-tier and MySQL for the database-tier. So the hardware
environment requirements to use of this software are at least Intel
Pentium II or equivalent processor, at least 64MB RAM, a database
server that need a diskless server but can be the same machine from
which the software will run. So, all of these requirements may be a
constraint to the clients. There are four software components required
for the proposed system. The four components are as follows:
Operating System
Web Server
Database
Web Browser
Operating System
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As our system will be platforms independent; so, there is no constraints
in case of operating system in using this software. Windows and Linux
operating systems are considered to be extremely stable platforms. One
of the advantages of using the Linux operating system is the speed at
which performance enhancements and security patches are made
available since it is an open source product.
Web Server
The available web server’s platforms are IIS and Apache. Since Apache
is open source, software security patches tend to be released faster.
One of the downsides to IIS is its vulnerability to virus attacks,
something that Apache rarely has problems with. Apache offers PHP; a
language considered to be the C of The next part is the end user
environment. Before we have explain that we have assume that the end
users are not so much aware about the computer and they are not so
much interested to divert their activities to the automated system from
the manual system.
5.4.2 Security requirements
Security requirement is the next part. As we developed OIQS by using 3tier architecture, so this system is secured. Because end user can’t
access the database directly as in 3-tier architecture database are
accessed via business logic.
5.4.3 Performance requirements
Now we will discuss about the performance requirements. This OIQS
system might be faster than other web based system. Because this
system is developed using HTML, PHP, and MySQL that are open source
and can run faster.
5.4.4 Network communication
The network communication of our system will be the web based. All the
users might have to network connections.
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5.5.0 Goals and guidelines
Our main goal is to develop an effective and efficient system. To design
this system we gave priority end users expectations.
The KISS principles
The full meaning of KISS is “Keep it Simple Stupid”. It means we need to
design the system in a very simple way. For a good design, we need to
consider the Criteria for good sub-system/UML diagram design. These
criteria are Coupling and Cohesion. Coupling measures the degree of
interconnectedness between design classes/components/sub-systems.
For a better design low coupling is preferable. Cohesion, on the other
hand, measures the degree to which an element
(class/component/subsystem) contributes to a single purpose. For a
better design high cohesiveness is preferable. Our design follows these
two criteria. We also try to make the design considering user
satisfaction.
Our Emphasis
We gave emphasis on the effectiveness of the system that is
correctness of the system and then efficiency of the system. Efficiency
includes various things; these are speed of the system, how much
memory the system needed when running, how much easier the
software to use etc. The automated system is introduced to ensure
faster and secured activities of the processes. We design the system
emphasis in those things. One example of emphasizing is that to make
the system faster we chose thin client and thick server.
Working, Looking, or feeling
Our main objective is to satisfy the users. If they feel good by using this
system then it will be really a very good job done.
5.6.0 ARCHITECTURAL STRATEGIES
We chose all the things that are software architecture, programming
languages to develop this OIQS considering a good design strategy.
After considering these factors we arrived at the following architectural
infrastructure.
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5.6.1 SOFTWARE
5.6.1.1 Programming Language
Programming Language for Client Tier
We use HTML and PHP to design the client tier. Because HTML and PHP
are easy to use and it will be helpful for us to design the client tier using
HTML and PHP.
Programming Language for Business-tier
We use PHP and JSP to design the Business-tier because it is an open
source programming language that is widely popular on the web. PHP is
well known for fast performance and it is also well known for its quick
and easy web development capabilities. PHP is an easier programming
language to learn than JavaScript because the core language is small.
That is why it is easier to us to design the Business-tier using PHP.
Programming Language for Database-tier
We use MYSQL to design the database-tier. The MySQL database has
become the world's most popular open source database because of its
consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used in
more than 11 million installations ranging from large corporations to
specialized embedded applications on every continent in the world.
Not only is MySQL the world's most popular open source database, it's
also become the database of choice for a new generation of applications
built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.)
MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows, OS/X,
HP-UX, AIX, Netware, giving user the kind of flexibility that puts user in
control.
5.6.1.2 LIBRARIES AND TOOLS
1. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
2. Appserv2.5.7
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5.7.0 SYSTEM ARCHITECTRE
System refers to both hardware and software. The system architecture
describes the collection of inter-connected hardware nodes on which
the software will eventually run. System architecture consists of
Hardware nodes, the connectivity among nodes, the location of users,
inputs and outputs;
• Software Architecture
We use Three-tier architectures to design our system. Because 3-tier
Architecture increases performance, flexibility, maintainability,
reusability, and scalability while hiding the complexity of distributed
processing from the users/clients.
Figure 5.7: System Architecture
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CLIENT TIER: Here client-tier is the first tier of our System/Software that
the end-users (students, teachers and admin) will use.
BUSINESS LOGIC TIER: System/Software that Client-tier use to get data
from the Database Server. Client-tier cannot access Database Server
directly. It must request the Business Logic Server first. Upon
authorization, the Business Logic Server will get the required data from
Database Server and reply to the Client appropriately.
DATABASE SERVER: Central and persistent storage of all data from
where Business Logic access data.
5.8.0 DETAIL SYSTEM DESIGN
5.8.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM
Use cases describe how the system-to-be from a user’s perspective. It used
to show the functions to be supported by the system. Here is the use case
diagram of OIQS system.
Add question
Teacher
<actor>
Edit question
See students
performance
Schedule for
exam
Sign In
Sign Out
Admin
<actor>
Add users info/
Register user
Edit users info
Course
Configuration
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View User Info
View Course Info
Appear in quiz
Question
Get feedback
Figure 5.8.1: Use Case Diagram
Student
<actor>
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Use Case UC1: Sign In
Primary Actor: Admin, Teacher, Student
Stakeholders Interests:
Admin: Wants to access the system as a valid user that is as a
administrator.
Teacher: Wants to access the system as a valid user that is as a teacher.
Student: Wants to access the system facilities as a valid user that is as a
student.
Organizations: Wants to avoid those people who are not registered in
the system. Also want to ensure the security.
Preconditions: Users are registered in the system.
Post conditions: Successful login for all registered users.
Main success scenario:
A user starts to sign in.
User enters *user id, *password and *user type.
System checks weather user id, password and user type is valid or not.
If valid then starts a user session and give access permission.
Errors:
If the user type is invalid then system shows an error message that
“Invalid User Type. Please Re-enter Correct User Type”.
If the user id is invalid then system shows an error message that
“Invalid User ID. Please Enter Correct User ID“.
If the password is invalid then system shows an error message that
“Your Password is Invalid. Please Enter Correct Password“.
If the user id and password are invalid then system shows an error
message that “Invalid User ID and Password. Please Enter Correct User
ID and Password“.
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Use Case UC2: Sign Out
Primary Actor: Admin, Teacher, Student
Stakeholders Interests:
Admin: Wants to close the session as an administrator.
Teacher: Wants to close the session as a teacher.
Student: Wants to close the session as a student.
Organizations: Wants to ensure the security of the user’s transactions.
Preconditions: User is identified and authenticated by starting a sign in
session.
Post conditions: Ensure that all useful and necessary works is saved to
the server.
Main success scenario:
User starts Sign Out.
System closes that user session.
Use Case UC3: Add Question
Primary Actor: Teacher
Stakeholders Interests:
Teacher: Wants to keep the question bank up to date.
Organizations: Wants to take online intelligent quiz.
Preconditions: Teacher is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: All questions are saved.
Main success scenario:
Teacher starts to add a new question
Teacher enters question level, question num, subject id, question,
answer options 1 to 4, answer and mark.
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System checks weather this question level is full or not. If not full then
add the question in the question bank.
System shows all the questions in that level after a successive add.
Teacher continues step 1 to step 4 each time he/she want to add a new
question in the question bank.
Error:
If Question Bank is full then system rejects the question and shows an
error message that is “Question Bank is full”.
Use Case UC4: Edit Question
Primary Actor: Teacher
Stakeholders Interests:
Teacher: Wants to keep the question bank up to date.
Organizations: Wants to take online intelligent quiz.
Preconditions: Teacher is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: All questions are saved.
Main success scenario:
Teachers start to edit questions.
He/She can see all the questions on necessity.
Teachers enter question level, question num, subject id to edit a
question.
System checks weather this question exists or not. If exists then prompt
teachers to edit the question and teachers enter question level, question
num, subject id, question, options 1 to 4, answer and mark.
System shows all the questions in that level after a successive edit.
Teachers continue step 1 to step 6 each time he/she want to edit a new
question in the question bank.
Error:
If the question is not exists in the Question Bank then system gives an
error message that is “Question is not present in the Question Bank”
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and prompt the user to enter question level, question num, subject id,
question, options 1 to 4, answer and mark.
Use Case UC5: Schedule for Quiz
Stakeholders Interests:
Teacher: Wants to take quiz in a predefine time. Also wants to make the
students
more interested on quiz.
Organizations: Want to take quiz according to the schedule.
Preconditions: Teacher is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: Given schedule is saved.
Main success scenario: Teachers start to make a new schedule.
Teachers enter quiz number, number of questions, total mark, start time,
end time, start date, end date, course id and teacher id.
Quiz will be started according to the schedule.
Error:
For any kind of wrong information system will give an error message
that is “You enter invalid information for Schedule” and prompt teacher
to re-enter quiz number, number of questions, total mark, start time, end
time, start date, end date, course id and teacher id.
Use Case UC6: Quiz result
Stakeholders Interests:
Teacher: Wants to evaluate students.
Organizations: Wants teachers can evaluate the students more effectively.
Preconditions: Teacher is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: Quiz result is saved.
Main success scenario: Teachers start to see quiz result.
Teachers enter quiz number, course id and teacher id.
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System checks weather these entered input is valid or not. If valid then
student marks, performance is shown.
Error:
If these entered inputs are not valid then system gives an error message
that is “Your given input is not valid” and prompt the user to enter
correct quiz number, course id and teacher id again.
Use Case UC7: Add User Info
Primary Actor: Admin
Stakeholders Interests:
Admin: Wants to keep the user information up to date.
Organizations: Wants to take intelligent quiz, to keep the users info up
to date.
Preconditions: Admin is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: All information are saved.
Main success scenario: Admin start to add new user information
Admin enters user name, id, password, and user category.
System checks weather the same user is registered before or not. If not
registered then add the user information in the database. If registered
then system prompt admin to enter another user id.
System shows the user information after each successive add.
Admin continue step 1 to step 4 each time he/she want to add a new
user in the database.
Use Case UC8: Edit User Info
Primary Actor: Admin
Stakeholders Interests:
Admin: Wants to keep the user information up to date.
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Organizations: Wants to take intelligent quiz, to keep the user info up to
date.
Preconditions: Admin is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: All information are saved.
Main success scenario:
Admin starts to edit new user information
Admin enters user id, and user category.
System checks weather this is a valid user id or not. If valid then show
the admin that user information and prompt edit information. If not valid
then system prompts admin to enter another user id.
System shows the user information after each successive edit.
Admin continue step 1 to step 4 each time he/she want to add a new
user in the database.
Error:
If entered user category and id is incorrect then system gives an error
message that “Invalid user Category and ID. Please enter correct user
Category and ID”.
Use Case UC9: Get Feedback
Primary Actor: student
Stakeholders Interests:
Student: Wants to get feedback.
Organizations: Wants to take intelligent quiz.
Preconditions: Student is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: All answers are saved.
Main success scenario:
Students want to get feedback. He/She selects a particular quiz solution.
System checks weather this quiz time is end or not. If finished then the
quiz answers is appeared.
Error:
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If the selected quiz time is not end then system shows the message that
“Your Quiz Time is not over”.
Use Case UC10: Appear in quiz
Primary Actor: student
Stakeholders Interests:
Student: Wants to attend in quiz.
Organizations: Wants to take intelligent quiz.
Preconditions: Student is identified and authenticated.
Post conditions: All answers are saved.
Main success scenario: 1. Students start to give quiz.
2. System checks weather quiz time is started or not. If started then the
first question of the quiz is appeared.
3. After answer the first question system give the second question.
4. Students continue step 3 until finished the quiz.
5. After finish the quiz he/she need to submit the answer script.
Error:
1. If quiz time doesn’t start then system shows the message that “It is
still x minutes left to start the quiz”.
2. If he/she cannot submit the answer script before time end, system
automatically takes the answer with in time end and shows the message
that “Your Time is End”.
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5.8.2 INTERACTION DIAGRAM
uid, pass and type
SignIn
uid, type
Login
not match
Database
Response
type = student
Student
type = teacher
Teacher
type = admin
Admin
Figure 5.8.2.1: Interaction Diagram for Login Process
Start Quiz
(Student)
cid
sid, cid
Check_date_
time
Invalid request
Database
Response
within schedule date
and time
cid, level, quesnum
Give question
Question
Sstart
Process_exam
(Quesgenerator)
question
Answer
Finally Result
Figure 5.8.2.2: Interaction Diagram for Quiz process
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cid,tid
Schedule Quiz
(Teacher)
tid, cid
Generate
Quiz Num
qnum
tques, sdate, edate,
stime, etime
Database
qnum
Save
Schedule
Figure 5.5.2.3: Interaction Diagram for Quiz Schedule process
cid, ques, ans,level
Add Question
(Teacher)
Save
Question
Database
Figure 5.8.2.4: Interaction Diagram for Add Question process
cid, tid
Edit Question
(Teacher)
Load
Question
slno
Save edit
question
Figure 5.8.2.5: Interaction Diagram for Edit Question process
Database
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5.8.3 CLASS DIAGRAM
User
utype: string
uid : string
uname: string
upass : string
dept : string
email : string
showLogInPage(): void
reqToLogin : string
reqToLogOut : string
showUserInFo():void
Student
Teacher
showStudentInfo()
: void
Admin
showTeacherInfo()
: void
1…*
1
showAdminInfo(
): void
1
Question
0…*
1 …*
Course
Quiz
cid : string
cname : string
1
showAllQuizes():
string
showGradeSheet():
string
1…*
quiznum : int
totalquestion: int
totalmark:int
stime: string
1…* startdate: string
showAnsScript()
:string
showGradeSheet
(): string
1
questionlevel: int
questionmm: int
work: int
subid: string
question: string
option1: string
option2: string
1…* option3: string
option4: string
answer: string
showQuestion():
string
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Figure 5.8.3: Class Diagram
5.8.4 FLOWCHART OF QUESTION GENERATOR ALGORITHM
Start
Quiz
Read Course ID
Read num_of_question
Read assign mark
Initialization
Count=0
Level = 1
Total mark =0
No
Question_num = func_rand ();
Level = floor [current_level] ;
Generate_question (course_id,
level, question_num);
Yes
Count++;
Is
Answer correct?
False
All question
of same level
Attempted?
Yes
Yes
Level ++
Update total mark
No
If Current Level =
=End level and
answer = = true
Yes
End
Show Result
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Figure 5.8.4: Flowchart of Question Generator Algorithm
5.8.5 TREE STRUCTURE VIEW OF OIQS
User
Admin
Teacher
Student
Control
&
Maintenance
Make Question
&
Take Exam
Attend
Exam
Figure 5.8.5.1: Tree Structure View of OIQS
Student
Select Course
Previous Taken
Quiz
Start Quiz
Figure 5.8.5.2: Tree Structure View of Student Module
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Teacher
Schedule Quiz
View All
Question
Add
Question
Edit
Question
Figure 5.8.5.3: Tree Structure View of Teacher Module
Admin
View All
Courses
User Setup
User
Modification
Add Course
Course
Configuration
Edit Course Info
Assign Course
To Teacher
View All
User Info
Assign Course
To Student
Figure 5.8.5.4: Tree Structure View of Admin Module
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5.8.6 E-R DIAGRAM
uname
type
dept
u_id
pass
email
USER
ISA
add
STUDENT
TEACHER
ADMIN
add
add
assigned to
take
e
t_ques
take
qnum
tmark
stime
has
COURSE
QUIZ
etime
c_id
sdate
cname
includes
edate
qleve
attened
qnum
mark
ans
sub_id
status
QUESTION
question
op1
op4
op3
op2
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s_id
02201048
02201018
02201070
02201154
sname
palash
saikot
rumi
nasim
dept
cse
cse
cs
cse
pass
123
012
324
786
e-mail
Msap71@yahoo.com
Saikot1@gmail.com
Rumi12@gmail.com
Nasim1@hotmail.com
Figure 5.8.6: E-R diagram of OIQS
Student Table:
Teacher Table:
T_id
012
009
003
tname
Dr. karim
rahman
Abdur rouf
sarkar
Dr.Rahim
dept
cse
pass
0012
e-mail
karim12@yahoo.com
cse
abc
sarkar@gmail.com
ess
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rahim@gmail.com
Course Table:
c_id
Cse420
Cse310
Cname
compiler
Java
programming
Simulation &
modeling
Cse474
T_id
012
009
003
ScheduleQuiz Table:
q_num
1
2
1
Tques
10
20
10
tmark
100
40
50
stime
12.00pm
10.00am
2.00pm
etime
12.30pm
10.20
3.00pm
sdate
3/6/07
10/5/07
5/5/07
edate
5/6/07
15/5/07
6/5/07
c_id
Cse420
Cse474
Cse310
T_id
012
003
009
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Question Table:
qlevel qnum sub_id question Op1 Op2 Op3 Op4 ans mark q_num
Admin Table:
a_id
789
889
885
aname
Mr.roton
Mrs sharmin
Mr. abul
pass
mrt
mnb
ccz
e-mail
Mrt12@gmail.com
Sha122@yahoo.com
Ant2000@yahoo.com
Resistered Table:
s_id
Palash
Soikot
Nasim
c_id
Cse420
Cse474
Cse474
QuizInfo Table:
s_id
02201048
02201018
02201154
t_id
00010001
00010002
00010001
5.8.7 USER INTERFACE
c_id
CSE391
CSE421
CSE391
qnum
1
2
1
status
yes
Yes
no
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Welcome Page
Online Intelligent Quiz System
WELCOME TO ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM
LOGIN
ABOUT SYSTEM
User Log In Page
Online Intelligent Quiz System
ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM
LOG IN
UID
PASSWORD
USERTYPE
Reset
Student Page
Sub
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Online Intelligent Quiz System
WELCOME TO ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ
LOG OUT
PREVIOUS TAKEN QUIZ
START QUIZ
Admin Page
Online Intelligent Quiz System
ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM
LOG OUT
View All UserInfo
Add Users Info
Edit User’s Info
Log In Error Message
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Online Intelligent Quiz System
ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ
User Name and Password does not match
OK
Question Page
Online Intelligent Quiz System
Course Name: DEV 101
Question Number 1
Which team won the world cup cricket 2003?
Bangladesh
India
Australia
Srilanka
NEXT
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Answer Script
Online Intelligent Quiz System
Course Name:
Quiz Number:
Question-1:
Correct Answer-1:
Question-2:
Correct Answer-1:
Question-n:
Correct Answer-n:
SCORE:
OK
All User Information
User Information:
User
Name
User
Id
Department
Email
Address
Password
SAVE
Type
BACK
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6.0 ADVANTAGE

Students can appear in a quiz from anywhere of the world.

There is no interaction with pencil and paper.

Questions are generated intelligently.
o The system generates a new question of a quiz by depending on the result
of the question last answered.
o The system generates different questions for different students for the
same quiz of a subject.

Teachers can use the system for evaluating students effectively, efficiently and
perfectly.

It is the more efficient and effective methods of assessing distant students.

There is provision of automated marking, that is, teachers do not need to check
the answer script as they do in manual quiz.

Valuable time of a teacher is saved.

The system will give feedback about a student in which side he/she is weak.

The system implements distant education.
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7.0 CONCLUSION
In this thesis, we have focused on the automated system, which replaces the
manual quiz system. But the interesting thing is that the thesis is not just an
online quiz system; it has its own intelligent capability. This was actually our
target feature of our thesis. Basically, we have tried to introduce the
evaluation method of student-performance and the feed back of the student in
the online quiz. Here, the questions are appeared according to the previous
answer of that student. We have implemented it in our thesis and it works
successfully in our system. In this system, an educational institute can make
their examination procedure automated. It gives the opportunity to the
authority to register teachers for different subjects and also give the facility to
the students to register their courses for the examinations using the OIQS.
Though this is a MCQ based quiz system but it is a perfect MCQ based online
quiz system that gives a lot of facilities to the users, as a modern quiz system
should have. This system is designed basically for the educational institute
but also can be developed for other examination systems like job interview,
quiz contest and for other criteria.
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8.0 DOCUMENTATION
8.1 INSTALATION
We have used AppServ 2.5.7 to run the system form the server side. Server
name we use local host and its port 8080. Here we show how to install
AppServ 2.5.7. One has to perform the following steps to install AppServ
2.5.7.
Step1: Click on AppServe2.5.7 exe file. You can show the following interface
after click. Choose path where you want to install AppServe2.5.7 by click on
the Brose button.
After choose the destination
folder click on Next button
To choose destination click
on Browse button
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Then you can show this interface. All of these are by default selected. You
just click on the next button.
After click on next button you can show the following interface. To run the
Online Intelligent Quiz System you must have to use Server name: localhost
and Apache HTTP Port: 8080. Then click on next button.
Write server name
localhost here
Write port number
8080 here
Click on next button
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Then you can show the following interface. Fill root password by root and then
click on install button. To run the Online Intelligent Quiz System you must
have to use root password: root.
Here fill by
password
“root”
Then click
on install
button
Installation started after click on install button. Below interface show that
installation process are in progress.
You can show the bellow interface after you finished installation process.
Then click on finish button.
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Click on
finish button
Then to run the Online Intelligent Quiz System you have to perform Step2.
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Step 2: To run the OIQS from a local host you have to do the following steps.
At first copy the Online
(c:\AppServ\www)folder.
folder
from
OIQS
folder
and
put
into
Online folder contains all
the system file of OIQS
This Online folder contains all necessary system files of OIQS that are shown
in the above figure.
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After that you have to copy system’s database folder named “teacher” from
OIQS folder and put into the (c:\AppServ\www)folder. This teacher folder
contains all the necessary database files that OIQS need.
Put teacher folder into
“c:\AppServ\MySQL\data”
You have finished the installation process to run from a local host. Now you
can run the system. To run the OIQS just put the below URL into the browser
and click into go button or press enter key from the keyboard.
http://localhost:8080/online/
Step 3: To run the OIQS from internet you have to do the following steps.
1. Copy the Online folder from OIQS folder and put in the location into the
server.
2. Then copy the teacher folder from OIQS folder and put in the location
into the server where you want to store the database file.
3. Then you can run the system using that address where you put the
Online folder.
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8.2 USER MANUAL
HOME PAGE
This is the home page of Online Intelligent Quiz System (OIQS). From this
page you can log in the OIQS. There are some links marked in blue color. By
clicking the Home link you will be redirected to the same page. By clicking the
Project Description link you can see the full details of this OIQS system. By
clicking the Help link you will get some FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) so
that you can solve the simple problems to access the systems like login or
generate the quiz schedule or attempt for a quiz. By clicking the Login you
can enter into the OIQS system.
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LOGIN PAGE
From the home page you can redirect to the login page if you click on the
Login link. Three types of users can access this OIQS and each user has
different functionalities. To enter into the system you have to enter user name
that is shown as UID and PASSWORD and you also have to select your type
that is UTYPE. Then you have to click on the Submit button. If all the inputs
are valid that was given by you then it will be redirected to the corresponding
request page. As an example, if user type is student then it will be redirected
to the student page.
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ADMIN PAGE
This is the administrator’s home page. You can see some buttons are there
and each of these buttons has different meaning. There are five buttons. The
first button is the User Setup button. By clicking this button system redirect
you to the add new user page from were you can add new user. The second
button is the User Modification button. By clicking this button system redirect
you to the edit user page from were you can edit old user information. The
third button is the Course Configuration button. By clicking this button
system redirect you to the course configuration page from were you can
assign course to teacher and student. Also you can add new course from
there. The fourth button is the View All User Info button and the last one is
View All Courses. By clicking to the view all user info button you can see all
user’s information. By clicking to the view all courses button you can see all
configure courses information.
Administrator can also do logout from this page or he/she can go to the
change password page by clicking the links that was located on the right top
of the page. To change the password we have to click on the Change
Password and to logout from the system we have to click on the Log Out
link.
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USER SETUP
This page is for adding new user to the database. The user may be a
teacher/student/admin who will use the system. The administrator have
to give the user id, first name, last name, user type, department and email address to add a new user. After filling all these user information
you just have to click to the save button to save all the information. The
administrator can log out from the system from this page by clicking the
Log Out link that was on the top right of the page. You can also return
back to the previous page by clicking to Previous Page link.
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EDIT USER INFORMATION
This is Edit user information page. The admin have to give the user id,
first name, last name, user type, department and e-mail address to edit
the user. The user information will be saved automatically to the
database after click the save button and admin can also delete user by
pressing Delete button. The administrator can log out from the system
from this page by clicking the Logout link that was on the top right of
the page. They can also return back to administrator’s previous home
page.
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COURSE CONFIGURATION
This is the course configuration page. We can see some button is there and
each of the button have the different in meaning. There are four buttons. The
first button is the Add Course; the second button is for Edit Course. The
third button is for Assign Course to Teachers and the fourth button is for
Assign Course to Student.
The administrator can log out from the system from this page by clicking
the Logout link that was on the top right of the page. They can also
return back to administrator’s previous home page.
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ADD COURSE
In Add Course page the Admin give the course Id and Course Name to add
course. The course will be saved automatically to the database after click the
save button .The Cancel button work like Refresh. The administrator can log
out from the system from this page by clicking the Logout link that was on the
top right of the page. They can also return back to administrator’s previous
home page by clicking Previous page. The Admin can add courses, as they
needed.
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EDIT COURSE
In Edit Course page the Admin give the course Id and Course Name to modify
courses. The course will be deleted by pressing the delete button after
selecting course id and course name. The modified course will be saved
automatically to the database after click the save button .The Cancel button
work like Refresh. The administrator can log out from the system from this
page by clicking the Logout link that was on the top right of the page. They
can also return back to administrator’s previous home page by clicking
Previous Page.
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ASSIGN COURSE TO TEACHER
This page is for assigning a course to the teacher. The administrator has to
select the teacher id, and the number of course id to add in the database.
After selecting all the necessary input the administrator will enter the “Save”
button. The information will be saved automatically to the database according
to the teacher id selected by the teacher. The Admin can log out from the
system from the page by clicking the Logout link that was on the top right of
the page. They can also return back to administrator’s home page.
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ASSIGN COURSE TO STUDENT
This page is for assigning a course to the student. The administrator has to
select the student id, and the number of course id to add in the database.
After selecting all the necessary input the administrator will enter the “Save”
button. The information will be saved automatically to the database according
to the student id selected by the student. The Admin can log out from the
system from the page by clicking the Logout link that was on the top right of
the page. They can also return back to administrator’s home page.
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VIEW ALL USER INFORMATION
This page contains all user information .In our system there are three types of
user and the Type separates them. Only Admin can access this page. They
will click on the “Generate” button. The query will be executed and all the
information of the user will be extracted with level here. The administrator can
log out from the system from this page by clicking the Logout link that was on
the top right of the page. They can also return back to administrator’s previous
home page.
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VIEW ALL COURSE INFORMATION
This page contains all course information. Where course are separated by
course id and name. They will click on the “Generate” button. The query will
be executed and all the information of the user will be extracted with level
here. The user can log out from the system from this page by clicking the
Logout link that was on the top right of the page. They can also return back to
administrator’s previous home page.
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TEACHER PAGE
This is the teacher’s home page. We can see some button is there and each
of the button have the different in meaning. There are four buttons. The first
button is the Schedule Quiz; the second button is for Add Question. The
third button is for Edit Question, the fourth button is for Users Info, and the
last one is View Question.
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SCHEDULE QUIZ
Before start a quiz Teacher need to schedule quiz that’s why we design this
page. Where teacher select the course code and fill the start date and end
date also teacher fill the start and end time for the quiz. Teacher also gives
the total number of question to be answer and total marks. After selecting this
field and pressing the save button data will be automatically save to the
database. The user can log out from the system from this page by clicking the
Logout link that was on the top right of the page. They can also return back to
administrator’s previous home page.
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ADD QUESTION:
We always want that students can learn better. For this we always update our
question bank so that the students can participate the quiz in new questions.
This page is for uploading new questions to the database. The teachers have
to select the course id to save the questions. Then he will enter new questions
along with four choices, answers and also the question level and click on the
“Save” button. The question will be saved automatically to the database
according to the course id selected by the teacher. The teacher can log out
from the system from the page by clicking the Logout link that was on the top
right of the page. They can also return back to teacher’s home page.
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EDIT QUESTION:
This page is for editing the existing questions from the database. The
teachers have to select a course from the drop down box that they want to
edit questions. Then they will click on the “Generate” button. The query will be
executed and all the questions of that subject will be extracted here. The
teacher will then select the questions and click on “Edit” button. Then this
question will be showed on the page. After that the teacher can modify, as
they need.
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VIEW ALL QUESTIONS
The teachers have to select a course from the drop down box that they want
to view questions. Then they will click on the “Generate” button. The query will
be executed and all the questions of that subject will be extracted with level
here.
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STUDENT PAGE
This is the student’s home page. We can see some button is there and each
of the button have the different in meaning. There are four buttons. The first
button is the Start Quiz; the second button is for Previous Quiz Info. The
third button is for Change password, the fourth button is for Users Info, and
the last one is Logout.
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START QUIZ
Student can start a quiz by selecting a course. After pressing the start button
our system made a query and match that start and end date and also start
and end time that was given by the teacher in the database if the date and
time does not match then our system shown a matches where exam duration
has been expired.
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QUESTION PAGE
This page shows the first question of the quiz where number 1 mean that this
question come from question level 1 and now you are in level 1. Every
question has four options where you (student) have to select one option and
have to press the next button to get the next question. After pressing the next
button, if the question answer is right then next question comes from the next
level otherwise it comes from the same level. This page will give you a new
question one after one up to you finished your quiz or up to quiz time is
finished. You (student) can log out from the system by clicking the Log Out
link that was on the top right of the page. By pressing the quit button you can
back to the student main page. Once you start a quiz you have to complete it,
because automatically take the answer chosen by you if you Quit or Log Out
from this page.
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In the below page shows the question number is 10 that is now you are in
level 10. This page also shows that next button is disabled because this is the
last question of your quiz. Here after choose an option as an answer you need
to click in the submit button to submit this question.
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RESULT PAGE
You can see the result page after have just finished your quiz. Below a
sample result page are shown.
You can log out from the system from this page by clicking the Log Out link
that was on the top right of the page. By pressing the quit button you can
back to your (student) main page.
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CHANGE PASSWORD:
This page is for the three type’s user by which you can change your
password. You can change your password by filling up your User ID, Old
Password, New Password, and Confirm New Password field. After pressing
the change button the password will be automatically change. You can log
out from the system from this page by clicking the Log Out link that was on
the top right of the page.
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9.0 GLOSSARY
OIQS: ONLINE INTELLIGENT QUIZ SYSTEM.
System: System is a set of entities, real or abstract, comprising a whole where each
component interacts with or is related to at least one other component and they all
serve a common objective.
User: A person who uses the system. In our OIQS, there are three types of users.
User ID: Every user has different id, which will identify them.
Admin: A user who controls the whole system.
Teacher: The users who teach the students and take quizzes.
Student: A user who is a student and appears in a quiz by registered.
Course: The subjects offered by an institution and are assigned to the students.
Department: An institute has several departments (CSE, BBA, etc). Before
registering, a student first chooses which department he/she wants to study.
Quiz: Teachers can evaluate a student by taking quiz. In OIQS, teachers take MCQ
quizzes.
Time & Date: Every quiz has fixed time and date, which will be fixed by the
teacher. Within this time and date students will appear in the quiz.
Generator Engine: A module, which generates questions intelligently.
Question Bank: The database where all data regarding quizzes are stored.
Schedule Quiz: Quizzes, which are scheduled i.e. time is fixed.
Feedback: The reaction or response to quizzes given by the OIQS.
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10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/node/view/15
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/
http://student.bu.ac.bd/~shadid/
Object-Oriented Software Engineering book by Timothy C.
Lethbridge and Robert Laganiere